Please take care of yourself and know that you did your best- & that your experience has helped us all to consider how we ALL do things (so you may have saved a few fish in the future by so bravely sharing your experience!)

Fish are kind of fragile creatures on the whole. I think everyone who's ever put their heart into keeping fish has one or two mistakes that made them rethink staying in the hobby.

Very true. This is how I have felt after a few mistakes made lately. I have had seven fish die in the last month and a half due to improper cycling in my tank. A new betta a got less than a week died right after bringing him home.

It's very frustrating and makes you feel like a failure, but you are not! I have learned that raising fish has a lot of trial and error in it. I've made a lot of errors so far but I am learning what I should and should not do.

My mom has gotten back into fish again because of me. So she is going to help me with my new tank.